Saturday, January 14, 2006

Padilla's Al Qaeda Form

Michelle Malkin's posted an image of Padilla's application to enlist in Al Qaeda captured among the Talaban archives in Afganistan.

I'm no lawyer, but my opinion is once you've joined an Army at War with the United States, you've renounced your citzenship.

Padilla's not a criminal, he's a POW and had he been fighting in uniform according to Geneva Convention, he should be treated as a POW. He wasn't fighing by the rules, so he should be treated the way we've agreed to treat enemy combatants.

In otherwords he sits in the cage for the duration of the war; and he should be thankful he wasn't shot.

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On the tomb of the nineteenth century Church historian Bishop Mandel Creighton are inscribed the words: ‘He tried to write true history.’

Like the bishop – who was a member of my own college at Oxford – I believe that there is such a thing as ‘true history’.

What happened in the past is unalterable and definite. To uncover it – or as much of it as possible – the historian has several tools, among them chronology, documentation, memoirs, and the vast apparatus of scholarly work in which others have delved and laboured in the same vineyard.